Urban redevelopment and the expulsion of a village: an urban village in Seoul and residents' responses to the redevelopment project

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This paper focuses on the issues raised by a redevelopment project currently taking place in an 'urban village' in Seoul, Korea. The paper examines the urban villagers' diverse community activities and responses to the redevelopment project. Furthermore, it explores how place attachment and communal feeling among neighbours have not only played an important role in creating emotional alliances for resistance against the redevelopment project, but have also helped residents to keep their property rights. This paper ultimately stresses the contradictions of the Hapdong redevelopment system through examining long-term residents' responses in the topography of conflict over the redevelopment project, and argues that this system is no longer fit to serve the needs of the urban ecology.

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